Topoz

Topoz
www.topoz.net

2023-11-9:
This company was dissolved at my request on about 31 October 2023.
I didn't have any further use for this company.
The BAS forms, end-of-year accounting, ASIC fees, etc., were a waste of time and money.
So now the company does not exist any more.
I spend my time writing a geometry book instead.

The information below is an archive from about 2001.
My statistical shaping idea never became a product of any kind.
I gave up on the statistical shaping idea in August 2001.
The last time I did any work using the Topoz company structure was about August 2022.

No business of any kind is conducted using this web site.
There's only one web page, and you're looking at it.

This is the official web site of Alan U. Kennington's one-person company `Topoz'.

Nature of business
Research, development and design of network modules for traffic shaping, policing, arbitration, filtering, conditioning and testing, incorporating advanced queueing algorithms.

Mission
To improve the world's telecommunications through research, development, prototyping, licensing, manufacture and supply of innovative network components.

Vision
An Internet with predictable quality of service, where Topoz network modules implement sophisticated service level guarantees in an optimal fashion so that the Internet can move from the era of `best effort' (the 20th century) to a new era of assured service levels (the 21st century), efficiently and economically.

Personnel

Director: Alan U. Kennington
Shareholder: Alan U. Kennington (10000 shares)

Planned products
If all goes to plan, I'll be offering one or more of the following network module products by the end of year 2001.

traffic measurement module
traffic generation module
traffic shaping module
- conventional `hard' shaping (as in ATM switches)
- advanced `statistical shaping' to assure specified service levels
traffic filter module
traffic conditioning module

All of these could operate in the ATM layer, AAL5 layer or IP layer.

Statistical Shaping was invented by Alan U. Kennington in March 2000. This idea is very simple indeed. Instead of merely observing and trying to forecast the statistical behaviour of subscribers to packet networks, the statistical behaviour should be controlled by shapers. Thus the longer-term statistical behaviour over hours or even days, as compared with each subscriber's SLA, should be the basis for prioritisation of traffic from each subscriber.

photo of AK at clipboard in old Topoz office

The old Topoz office in Thebarton 2000/2001.

Go to Alan U. Kennington's home page.

Director:	Alan U. Kennington
Shareholder:	Alan U. Kennington (10000 shares)